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This is a partial list of extinct languages of South America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. There are 176 languages listed. Argentina
Pages in category "Extinct languages of South America" The following 164 pages are in this category, out of 164 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct": [1] Vulnerable; Definitely endangered; Severely ...
List of unclassified languages of South America; List of extinct languages of South America. Extinct languages of the Marañón River basin; Indigenous languages of the Americas. Classification of indigenous languages of the Americas; List of indigenous peoples of South America. List of indigenous peoples of Brazil; Handbook of South American ...
In Peru, Quechua and Aymara, as well as other indigenous languages, are co-official in the areas where they are predominant. There are many other languages once spoken in South America that are extinct today (such as the extinct languages of the Marañón River basin). In Brazil, there are around 135 indigenous languages confirmed.
A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the modern Romance languages; it is impossible to state when Latin became extinct because there is a diachronic continuum (compare synchronic continuum) between ancestors Late Latin and Vulgar Latin on the one hand and descendants like Old French and Old Italian on the ...
The major South American language families. Ethnolinguistic groups of mainland Southeast Asia. ... extinct South America: Timotean: 2 200 South America: Tiniguan: 3 1
List of extinct languages of Africa; List of extinct languages of Asia; List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe; List of extinct languages of Oceania; List of extinct languages of North America; List of extinct languages of South America